Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Are You Smarter Than Joe Biden

From Don Surber:
The Obama administration is nothing if not full of itself. Never before have we seen such bragging from people who never accomplished a thing in their lives. But what do you expect from a man who wrote two autobiographies before he was elected president?

Today’s example comes via Hot Air, which linked the Huffington Post:

Vice President Joseph Biden on Monday night upped the ante around the already quite-dramatic assassination of Osama bin Laden.

From the pool report of Biden’s comments during a fundraising event in New Jersey come these quotes.

“You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan. Never knowing for certain. We never had more than a 48 percent probability that he was there.”
Real audacious, golfing while the Navy SEALs put their lives on the line half a world away.
Compare that to George Washington actually crossing the Delaware and leading a Christmas Day raid in 1776.
Unlike Barry, George Washington was not on the golf course calculating his re-election chances while his men did the fighting.
It is called leadership.
Compare that to D-Day. Hours before the troops landed, Ike Eisenhower penned his resignation in case of failure.

Ed Morrissey had a list more audacious military events:
.D-Day
·Guadalcanal
·Raid on Tokyo
·Battle of Cowpens
·Dunkirk
·Bunker Hill
·Agincourt, if one is willing to go back 600 years or so

Oh hell, you need not go back 100 years. Or even 40. How about the Raid on Entebbe? The Second Battle of Fallujah?
But for real derring-do, it is hard to top Hernán Cortés taking on the Aztecs.
Any other nominations, readers?

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